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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] Memory API for 1.6: fix I/O port
 endianness mess
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, aik@ozlabs.ru, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, hpoussin@reactos.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, aurelien@aurel32.net

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 10:38 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 July 2013 10:00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > That's fine, I know you can fix stuff :-) I'm just really annoyed that
> > upstream qemu remained broken for so long (and still is) while the whole
> > thing derailed into a mostly pointless discussion on endianness and
> > nobody (including Alexey) hollered loud enough that the breakage was
> > fairly extensive
> 
> I think that for the minor architectures we just have to make
> sure that we do yell loudly when things are broken, because
> the nature of things is that people won't notice. Maybe we should
> have a qemu-urgent list to parallel qemu-trivial for compile
> fixes, reversions of bad breakage, etc, to try to keep them
> out of the general noise ?

Or I teach Alexey to yell louder (along with some French :-)

Not sure if a mailing list is useful. A tag might be enough
[REGRESSION] ? [URGENT] ? Those kind of subject tags tend to stand out
pretty well on mailing lists.

Cheers,
Ben.